100 Things You Should Know About Planet Earth

100 Things You Should Know About . . .

by Steve Parker, Peter Riley

100 things you should know about Planet Earth takes you on a fantastic journey across the nature features of our planet. Exactly 100 facts, accompanied by detailed artwork, reveal mighty mountain ranges, violent volcanoes, and burning deserts. Throughout there are puzzles, quizzes, and projects - grow some stunning crystals, make your own compass and create a volcanic reaction. So prepare to scale mountains, cross the wildest rivers and discover lands of forests, desert and snow.

Genres: Reference

48 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2003

About the author

Steve Parker is a British science writer of children's and adult's books. He has written more than 300 titles and contributed to or edited another 150.

Born in Warrington, Lancashire, in 1952, Parker attended Strodes College, Egham and gained a BSc First Class Honours in Zoology at the University of Wales, Bangor. He worked as an exhibition scientist at the Natural History Museum, and as editor and managing editor at Dorling Kindersley Publishers, and commissioning editor at medical periodical GP, before becoming a freelance writer in the late 1980s. He is a Senior Scientific Fellow of the Zoological Society of London. Parker is based in Suffolk with his family.

Parker's writing career began with 10 early titles in Dorling Kindersley's multi-award-winning Eyewitness series, from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. He has since worked for more than a dozen children's book publishers and been shortlisted for, among others, the Rhone-Poulenc Science Book Prize, Times Educational Information Book of the Year, and Blue Peter Book Award.